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  • US vessel 'shoots at Suez boat'

    A US container ship approaching the Suez Canal has opened fire on a small Egyptian motorboat, killing one man and wounding two others, reports say. The Global Patriot, carrying used US military equipment, was in the Gulf of Suez when it was approached by a motorboat selling local merchandise. Its crew apparently fired after the boat failed to heed.. More

  • Iraqi forces clash with Mahdi Army

    Iraqi security forces have clashed with fighters from the Mahdi Army of Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr in the southern city of Basra, amid demands by the group that detained members be released. Mortar and gun fire was heard on Tuesday after security forces entered the neighbourhood of al-Tamiya, a Mahdi Army stronghold, the AFP news agency said. Clashes.. More

  • Pakistan chief justice released

    One of Pakistan's most senior judges has been released from house arrest on the instruction of the newly appointed prime minister. Crowds of supporters thronged the home of Iftikhar Chaudhry, the chief justice of the supreme court, on Monday after Yousuf Gilani ordered that the judge be freed. The move is seen as further jeopardising the authority.. More

  • Troops head for Comoros island

    An African Union-backed invasion force has set off from the Comoros island of Moheli for neighboring Anjouan. About 1,500 African Union (AU) troops, mostly from Tanzania and Sudan, and about 400 Comoran soldiers are taking part in the military operation to remove Colonel Mahamed Bacar, the island's leader. A foreign diplomat, speaking on condition.. More

  • Serbia wants Kosova partitioned

    Nine years after Nato began bombing Serbia to stop a bloody crackdown on Kosova Albanians, Belgrade has proposed partitioning the newly- independent nation along ethnic lines. The proposal to divide Kosova between its ethnic Albanian majority and minority Serbs was published on Monday, the anniversary of Nato's 78-day air war. The document, submitted.. More

  • Pakistan assembly set to elect PM

    Pakistan's parliament is set to elect Yousaf Raza Gilani, a former speaker and once a close aide to slain politician Benazir Bhutto, as the country's new prime minister. The national assembly was to due to meet at about 4pm local time on Monday (1100 GMT.) Gilani is expected to win the vote with a big majority. Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP),.. More

  • Al-Qaeda deputy calls for attacks

    The second-ranking leader of al-Qaeda has called for new strikes against Jewish and American interests. Ayman al-Zawahiri's appeal came in an audio speech issued by the group's As-Sahab information network and monitored by the Washington-based SITE Intelligence Group on Sunday. In the radio address titled "Rush to Support Our People in Gaza", he tells.. More

  • US death toll in Iraq hits 4,000

    The death toll of US military in Iraq has passed 4,000 after the US Central Command announced that four more troops had died in an attack. The soldiers were killed on Sunday by a roadside bomb during a patrol in southern Baghdad, the military said on Monday. At least 50 Iraqis, most of them civilians, also died on Sunday in violence including bomb.. More

  • Palestinian rivals reach agreement

    Hamas and Fatah have signed a Yemeni-sponsored reconciliation deal in Sanaa and agreed to hold direct talks. PLO and Hamas representatives reached the agreement in the Yemeni capital on Sunday after negotiations appeared close to collapse. The factions had agreed the previous day to continue reconciliation talks after a personal plea by Ali Abdullah.. More

  • 54 killed in Iraq bloodshed

    A wave of attacks across Iraq on Sunday killed 54 people, while assailants bombarded Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone with mortar fire, sending US embassy staff scurrying into bunkers. The deadliest attack was in the main northern city of Mosul where a suicide bomber crashed an explosives-laden truck into an Iraqi army base, triggering a blast.. More

  • Kurds killed in Turkey protests

    Hundreds of Kurdish protesters have thrown stones at police and soldiers in southeastern Turkey, in the fourth day of clashes that have killed at least two people and injured dozens of others. Authorities banned gatherings in several cities after celebrations to mark the Kurdish New Year, or Newroz, turned violent. One person died from a bullet wound.. More

  • Afghan, NATO troops kill dozens of Taliban fighters

    Afghan and NATO-led forces killed or wounded scores of Taliban fighters in a joint air and ground operation in southern Afghanistan, the Afghan Defense Ministry said on Sunday. The Defense Ministry did not give an exact number of fighters killed in the latest clash near the town of Deh Rawood in the southern province of Uruzgan on Saturday, but Afghan.. More

  • Yemen pushes for Palestinian unity

    Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas have agreed to continue reconciliation talks after a personal plea by Ali Abdullah Saleh, the Yemeni president. Negotiations were on the brink of collapse after both sides disagreed on the agenda interpreting a Yemeni plan to end a rift triggered when Hamas seized Gaza in June last year. While none of the differences.. More

  • Blasts hit Baghdad's Green Zone

    Smoke has been seen rising from the Iraqi capital's heavily fortified Green Zone after it was targeted by a series of rockets or mortars. At least 10 blasts were heard in the area in central Baghdad, starting shortly before 6am on Sunday, and helicopters were immediately seen flying overhead. The US public address system in the Green Zone warned people.. More

  • Taliban leader vows renewed attacks

    A Taliban commander who has been in hiding for seven years has broken his silence in a video given to TV networks. Jalaluddin Haqqani, appearing frail but defiant in the video aired on Al Jazeera on Saturday, vowed a renewed campaign in Afghanistan against US and Nato "invaders". The video shows more than one attack, including what is believed to.. More